Posted on 07/14/2020 11:30:41 AM PDT by matt04
Florissa Fuentes went through an admittedly rocky adolescence growing up in the city’s North End, finding herself in loads of trouble before a high school-based city police officer persuaded her to move to North Carolina for a new perspective.
Hailing from a heavily military family, Fuentes returned to the city in 2007, a teen hoping for a fresh start. She aimed to join the U.S. Navy, but her brother, Daniel Newsome, was killed in combat in Baghdad, discounting her from enlisting just as she prepared for basic training.
Fuentes eventually set her eyes on a corrections career, graduating from the Western Massachusetts County Correctional Officer’s Training Academy as class president in 2018.
Last year she was among 18 new recruits for the Springfield Police Department. Fuentes was pinned by Commissioner Cheryl Clapprood at a ceremony at Springfield College on July 18, 2019.
However, her career was cut short in under a year. A newly promoted detective in the Special Victims Unit, Fuentes, now 30, was fired on June 19 — about a month after posting a pro-Black Lives Matter image to her personal Instagram account while off duty.
The image showed her niece protesting in Atlanta. Flames leap up in the background and her niece holds a sign that reads: “Shoot the F--- Back.” A friend’s sign reads: “Who do we call when the murderer wears the badge?”
The photo was taken May 29, Fuentes said. She posted it the next day, and it wasn’t long before the storm came.
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Can this day get any better?
“It was the second issue she had, and being on probation, it was my decision to terminate her employment,” the commissioner said.”
Second issue...uhmm.
The MSM tears are reserved only for those that extol the Leftwing agenda.
Disciplinary action seems appropriate, but not firing.
One year recruit becomes a detective?
The image showed her niece protesting in Atlanta. Flames leap up in the background and her niece holds a sign that reads: “Shoot the F-— Back.” A friend’s sign reads: “Who do we call when the murderer wears the badge?”
“After I posted it, I started getting calls and texts from co-workers,” Fuentes said during an interview. “I was initially confused, but then I realized they thought I was being anti-cop. I wasn’t. I was just supporting my niece’s activism. I had no malicious intent, and I wouldn’t put a target on my own back. I’m out there on the streets every day like everyone else.”
It’s too kind to call her stupid.
Police need exceptional judgment. Adios.
Sounds like Affirmative Action, doncha know.
>>One year recruit becomes a detective?
Guess she had ‘special’ qualifications.
You can take the child out of the ghetto. But you can’t take the ghetto out of the child.
“Disciplinary action seems appropriate, but not firing.”
“Shoot the F*****s”
Supporting murder against one’s own partners on the police force?
Disciplinary action seems appropriate, but not firing.
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Firing was appropriate. Taking sides with a violent radical terrorist group against your own kind?
That’s a firing.
But she has double-bonus intersectionality points, so that’s like 3 years of experience.
That jumped out at me as well. How in hell does this work? This is total bull sh*t.
>>One year recruit becomes a detective?
Guess she had ‘special’ qualifications.
= = =
She was really, really good at detecting things.
"just supporting her niece's activism"?
How would she feel if a co-worker posted a KKK rally with a flaming cross in the background of people holding similarly inflammatory comments about blacks? "just supporting his nephew's activism"?!?
Had I been a fellow officer, I would have felt the same way!! Could she be trusted to have a fellow blue’s back? I don’t think so!
That caught me funny as well.
She can move to Kalifornia and some department will make her Chief of Police.
Tough shit.
Cancel Culture has gotten a thousand fired for being pro police for every case like this.
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